The Sanitary City
Subtitle: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present (Creating the North American Landscape)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: November 24, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 600
ISBN-13: 9780801861529
Subjects: Public health & preventive medicine; Social history; Urban communities; Waste management; Water industries; 20th century; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Science/Mathematics; Sanitary And Municipal Engineering; Technology; Technology & Industrial Arts; USA; Social Aspects; Environmental Engineering & Technology; Sociology - Urban; Science / Environmental Science; Municipal water supply; History; Refuse and refuse disposal; Sanitary engineering; United States
First sentence: Prior to the 1830s, many American cities faced poor sanitary conditions and suffered the crippling effects of epidemic disease.